Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

We are likely to be trapped in the fallacy of hasty generalization in our daily lives, sometimes causing catastrophes. If this fallacy is aggravated by vicious terrorists or religious extremists, it ...

We live in an age of exaggeration. It's dominated by two fallacies of informal logic. First, there's the fallacy called "hasty generalization." A politician takes a bribe—or two politicians take ...